Vermin Act Amendment Act 1958 (WA)

No. 15.] Vermin. [1958.

VERMIN.

7° Elizabeth II., No. XV.

No. 15 of 1958.

AN ACT to amend the Vermin Act, 1918-1956.

[Assented to 6th October, 1958.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Vermin Act Pahcfgattli,m.

Amendment Act, 1958.

Reprinted in

(2) In this Act the Vermin Act, 1918-1956,

Volume 9

of The

Act No. 2 of 1919 as reprinted with amendments Reprinted to and including Act No. 5 of 1953 incorporated Approved for pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments l'gr eTtem- Incorporation Act, 1938, and as further amended ID"' 1954.

by Acts Nos. 44 of 1954, and 57 and 82 of 1956,

is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Vermin Act, 1918-1958.

S. 46

amended. 2. Section forty-six of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by adding after the section designation, "46", the subsection designation, "(1)"; and

(b) by adding the following subsection:

(2) (a) In order to resolve any doubt which, but for the enactment of this subsection might arise, it is hereby expressly enacted that the powers con- ferred by paragraph (b) and paragraph (c) of this subsection

(i)    shall be deemed to have been conferred on, and to have been

Of. Declara-

tion of 6th

exercisable by, the Protection

February,

1957, pub-

Board on and from the sixth

lished In

Gazette of

day of February, one thousand

26th July,

1957, p. 2396.

nine hundred and fifty-seven;

and

(ii)    are in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other powers conferred on the Protection Board by this Act in general or any of the powers so conferred by section fifty-one of this Act in particular.

(b) Where under section forty-five of this Act a board has been appointed for a district, if it appears to the Protection Board that for the more conveniently or for the better carrying out of the purposes of this Act the board so appointed should be abolished and replaced by a board constituted pursuant to section seven- teen of this Act, the Protection Board by declaration may abolish the firstmen-

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tioned board without abolishing the district, and thereupon or as soon there- after as is practicable a board shall be constituted pursuant to section seventeen of this Act for the district.

(c) The Protection Board by one and

the same declaration

(i)    may abolish pursuant to para- graph (b) of this subsection a board appointed under section forty-five of this Act;

(ii)   may make appointments pur- suant to subsection (1) of section seventeen of this Act; and

(iii)   may exercise any power con- ferred by section fifty-one of this Act.